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One of the disabling weaknesses of current culture is its unwillingness or inability to engage with the dance of the spirit in the sciences.
Those challenges – including weaknesses in the real economy and the private sector, overcapacity, excessive leverage, and high housing prices – are rooted largely in the financial sector’s mounting problems and the failure of China’s leaders to address them.
These crises illustrate weaknesses both in globalization and in the systems of internal governance within these economies.
But this model suffers from two fatal weaknesses.
But it illustrates a simple point: Europe is trying to achieve a stronger federal model that responds to the weaknesses revealed by the eurozone crisis.
But very few analyses delve beneath the surface of immediate figures and assess the core of Spain’s strengths and weaknesses.
Furthermore, weaknesses in agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and governance have all contributed to India’s current crisis.
This points to another vulnerability: weaknesses within labor markets that have proved particularly damaging for the young.
But eventually, fundamental economic strengths and weaknesses have more effect on the exchange rate than self-fulfilling prophecies.
Many Western governments, however, refuse to place their forces under AU command, owing to its perceived weaknesses, and have conditioned further support for peacekeeping operations in Darfur on the UN’s assuming control.
But, rather than working to strengthen its resilience, he is exacerbating its weaknesses – and creating new ones.
Despite variations among countries in Asia, some weaknesses in policies and systems designed to boost skills development are endemic.
The weaknesses of global policy cooperation are especially worrisome in view of the gravity of the challenges that must be met.
This is especially true in India, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Indonesia, all of which suffer from multiple macroeconomic and policy weaknesses – large current-account deficits, wide fiscal deficits, slowing growth, and above-target inflation – as well as growing social protest and political uncertainty ahead of elections in the next 12-18 months.
Given economic stagnation, the political system’s weaknesses, the aging of the population, and resistance to immigration, fundamental change will not be easy.
Egypt is currently weighed down by an unfavorable combination of slow economic growth, high unemployment, fiscal imbalances, institutional weaknesses, and poor social services – problems that are compounded by rapid population growth and poverty.
In this context, one of the commission’s traditional weaknesses – that foreign and energy policies are usually decided by individual member states – could serve as an important advantage.
The problem is that none of globalization’s underlying weaknesses is likely to be adequately addressed under the current agenda.
Two other developments will greatly aggravate these weaknesses.
Beginning in 2010, an unexpected sovereign debt crisis contributed to and was compounded by serious weaknesses in major banks.
Lebanon often struggles to attract funding because of its status as a middle-income country, but this label is misleading, as it does not take into account serious structural weaknesses that pre-date the Syrian crisis or the huge proportion of the resident population composed of refugees from Syria, Palestine, and Iraq living in abject poverty.
Bosnia has exposed NATO’s weaknesses.
While this seems to be a very pessimistic assessment of the regional situation, the radical Islamist side has many weaknesses.
As it basks in its new status as an economic superpower – the dragon that is outpacing Asia’s tigers as well as the donkeys of the West – China is mistakenly downplaying its own serious structural weaknesses.
Instead, it should be revealing its weaknesses and vulnerabilities to gain Western understanding.
According to Bob Woodward, the doyen of Washington journalists, the modus operandi of US President Donald Trump’s administration is “maximize aggression to conceal vital weaknesses.”
In view of these systemic weaknesses, China’s ability to overcome its labor deficit by shifting to an innovation- and productivity-driven economy remains dubious.
Another of Asia’s relative weaknesses comes from its poor record on innovation, a fundamental building block of prolonged economic dynamism.
In Steven Lee Myers’ excellent new biography, The New Tsar, the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief describes how, when Putin was posted in East Germany in the waning years of communism, he used his opponent’s weaknesses to advance the Soviet cause.
But the greater concern is the behavior of pragmatists, who identify weaknesses that can be exploited.
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